Week In Photos: 8/21-8/27

A recap of selected photos by staff and freelance photographers, published in the Kitsap Sun for the week of August 21st.-27th.

The air of the blow dryer sends 11-year-old Kyah Martinez's hair flying as she helps her friend Autumn Keehan, 9, wash and dry her 4-H goat named Bella at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds on Thursday August 22, 2013. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

The tall ship Lady Washington sails back to dock at the Port Orchard Marina at sunset on Thursday after an evening tour. LARRY STEAGALL / KITSAP SUN

A bull named Dump Truck gets a piece of cowboy Dallee Mason, of Weiser, Idaho, after his dismount during the Xtreme Bulls at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds on Wednesday. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

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Window washer Jim Mahoney of Pacific Window Cleaning in Seattle works on the Norm Dicks Government Building on Monday. LARRY STEAGALL / KITSAP SUN

Zack Dormaier buckles his seat belt as he gets ready for his race at the Bremerton Raceway earlier this month. The National Hot Rod Association would not renew Zack’s racing license earlier this year because he was on a stimulant-based medication to treat his ADHD. Zack’s father went back-and-forth with the organization, unsuccessfully, to change its policy. Ultimately, Zack switched medications. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

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Shawn Wells sets up a hammock for a cozy resting spot at Evergreen-Rotary Park in Bremerton on Thursday. LARRY STEAGALL / KITSAP SUN

Goat herder Andrew Barclay from Barclay Brush & Weed Control of Bainbridge Island leads his goats to the plants to clear for the future building site of Serenity House at Lynwood Center on Bainbridge Island on Tuesday. The goats have been eating blackberry, scotch broom , ivy, and wild rose. LARRY STEAGALL / KITSAP SUN

Dan Dalsky runs through a rope drill during the first day of football practice at Bremerton High School on Wednesday. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

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MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN Zarna Jhaveri, of Seattle, prepares lunch for her children Soham, 2, Samyag, 7, and her husband Samit while camping in one of the cabins at Kitsap Memorial Park in Poulsbo on Tuesday. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

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Kisho McDonald, 11, left, watches as Cyrus Storlie, 12, gets into his tent at Manchester State Park on Thursday. They were camping out as part of the Bike Works camp from Seattle. LARRY STEAGALL / KITSAP SUN

Fairgoers ride the YoYo at the Kitsap County Fair & Stampede on Friday.

Greg Schaffeld, of The Dalles, OR., hits the dirt as the steer stops short during the steer wrestling portion of the Kitsap Stampede in Silverdale on Saturday, August 24, 2013. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

Michael Riggs Jr., of Statesboro, GA., is thrown from his bull named Juicy Vindication during the Xtreme Bulls at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds on Wednesday. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

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South Colby Elementary School teacher Steve Kaio-Maddox explains the ballot and contract to Madrona Heights Elementary School teacher Lisa Macht before the contract meeting Monday at South Kitsap High School. LARRY STEAGALL / KITSAP SUN

Justin Boots Sports Medicine Program Director Rick Foster talks with bull rider J.W. Harris about pain that he is having in his knee inside the Justin Boots Sports Medicine trailer at the Kitsap Stampede in Silverdale on Saturday, August 24, 2013. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

Eleven-month-old Mason Summers won the diaper derby at the Kitsap County Fair and Stampede on Friday.

MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN Wrangler volunteer Bert Dato opens the gate for bull rider Ty Wallace during the Xtreme Bulls event at the Kitsap Stampede on Wednesday. Dato has volunteered at the rodeo for 35 years.

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Roy Lusk (right), chairman of the Kitsap 9/11 Memorial at Evergreen-Rotary Park in Bremerton, explains the work to Benny Wright (left) and Jim Charest of the Bricklayers & Allied Craftworkers on Monday. They are working on the foundation and tile laying for the project. LARRY STEAGALL / KITSAP SUN

Klahowya football players do agility drills on the first day of practice Wednesday afternoon. (LARRY STEAGALL / KITSAP SUN)

Janean Dolezal, of Sunrise Equine Rescue of Grapeview, talks with children from the Montessori School House of Tracyton about Henry on Wednesday in the miniature horse barn at the Kitsap County Fair & Stampede. Sunrise Equine Rescue hopes to find homes for Henry and four other miniature horses. LARRY STEAGALL / KITSAP SUN

Steve Zugschwerdt / Special to the Kitsap Sun Tom Moore, deputy director of Mason County Department of Utilities, and Bill VanBuskirk, chief operating manager of the Belfair water treatment plant, say the facility is operating at about 30 percent of its capacity.

Tim Bridwell, the horse specialist for Growney Brothers Rodeo Company, guides the bareback and saddle bronc geldings back into their pens after letting them exercise in Thunderbird Stadium on Monday afternoon. LARRY STEAGALL / KITSAP SUN)